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Issue Thirty-Seven!!

Posted in Issue Thirty-Seven with tags , , , on September 17, 2012 by mohawko

This week, in our giant whopper THIRTY-SEVENTH ISSUE (whoa! what a number!), our latest story has traveled allllll the way to Sofia, Bulgaria on the back of Operative Delaney to bring you the finest in wearable literature.

Here goes:

ISSUE THIRTY-SEVEN (9/17/12):

featuring

*Blank Wave*

by Chad Redden

Operative: Delaney Nolan (Sofia, Bulgaria)

About the author: Chad Redden wrote a small book about Thursday titled Thursday (Plain Wrap). He lives at chadasaurusrex.tumblr.com.

About the operative: Delaney Nolan‘s fiction has been in some places and has not been in a lot of other places. Her prose chapbook “Louisiana Maps,” forthcoming this winter, is the winner of the Ropewalk Press Fiction Editor’s Chapbook Prize. She will be the artist-in-residence at Klaustrid in Iceland this January.

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Also, in case you haven’t been paying attention, last weekend we announced our 2012 Best of the Net nominations. Check ‘em out.

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Issue Thirty-Six!!

Posted in Issue Thirty-Six with tags , , , on September 4, 2012 by mohawko

HIYA. Welcome back to the best party. We are beyond excited to present our thirty-sixth issue, which is being worn around NYC by fearless Operative Dylan. Let’s get physical:

ISSUE THIRTY-SIX (9/4/12):

featuring

“We step back and watch our lives and are really quite bored”

by Brandi Wells

Operative: Dylan Bargteil (New York, NY)

About the author: Brandi Wells is Managing Editor of The Black Warrior Review and a web editor at Hobart. She is the author of Please Don’t Be upset (Tiny Hardcore Press) and Poisonhorse (Nephew, An imprint of Mudluscious Press). Her writing can be found in Salamander, Mid-American Review, Gargoyle, Forklift Ohio, 14 Hills and many other journals.

About the operative: Dylan Bargteil is a poet and physics student at NYU interested in pursuing alternative methods of distribution for art and literature.

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Coming next week, nominations.

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Issue Thirty-Five!!

Posted in Issue Thirty-Five with tags , , , on August 20, 2012 by mohawko

WOW. Thirty-five issues. It’s been a long time. This week, we’re being worn around the Minneapolis/St. Paul area by none other than Operative Tyler, the first person to whom the hare-brained scheme that was SPR was described almost a year ago, with a piece of poetry contributed by the ultimate in literary wanderlust. LET’S GO:

ISSUE THIRTY-FIVE (8/20/12):

featuring

Steve Roggenbuck

Operative: Tyler Pry (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN)

About the author: Steve Roggenbuck is a traveling poet and video blogger. Here are his website and twitter and facebook.

About the operative: While not teaching children how to read in AmeriCorps, Tyler Pry is training for a marathon and putting off ’til tomorrow what should be done today.

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Next month, we’ll celebrate our first year of existence (CAN YOU BELIEVE IT I SURE CAN’T NOPE), hopefully with prizes. x

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Issue Thirty-Four!!

Posted in Issue Thirty-Four with tags , , , on August 8, 2012 by mohawko

For the latest issue of the Safety Pin Review, we have once again traveled far across the seas, this time, allllll the way to Stavanger, Norway, land of the fjords, where this story was worn by previous SPR contributor Berit Ellingsen. There are pictures of thousands to come, but in the meantime, HERE LOOK THERE IT IS CATCH IT BEFORE THE DISCORD HITS YOU:

ISSUE THIRTY-FOUR (8/6/12):

featuring

“For Sale: Sold”

by Chad Patton

Operative: Berit Ellingsen (Stavanger, Norway)

In case you have trouble reading, the story goes a little sumthin’ like this:

For Sale: Sold
She heard the noise;
I heard it too. We
looked in places unexplor-
ed, nooks and crannies,
ceilings and floors.
We found each other,
nothing more.

About the author: Chad Patton is a graduate of Grand Valley State University and lives in Grand Rapids, MI. His works can be seen in Unstuck‘s Twitter Fiction Contest, Specter Magazine, and Commas and Colons. He is currently working on a novel about Nicaragua. You can find his tweets under @chadisman.

About the operative: Berit Ellingsen is a Korean-Norwegian writer whose stories have appeared in many places online and in print. Her novel, The Empty City, is a story about silence. Find out more at beritellingsen.com.

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Stay tuned for the throngs, later this week. Oh yes, the throngs.

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Issue Thirty-Three!!

Posted in Issue Thirty-Three with tags , , , on July 30, 2012 by mohawko

So soon? WE’VE WAITED TOO LONG ALREADY. We are beyond excitation (hovering at near-sexual levels) to present the Safety Pin Review’s thirty-third issue, brought to you by one of our nation’s most beloved poets. This week’s issue was worn throughout Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and the spaces in between by our lovely operative Erin Crooks. That’s right, we went to the land of green chili. Here goes everything (and there goes the neighborhood):

ISSUE THIRTY-THREE (7/30/12):

featuring

Salad

by Russ Woods

Operative: Erin Crooks (Albuquerque, NM)

About the author: Russ Woods co-edits Red Lightbulbs and Love Symbol Press with Meghan Lamb. He lives in Chicago and you can find more of his work at solarflareshavebeenknowntocauseheartache.com. This piece is part of an ongoing series of stories about Sara and her dog that he hopes to someday collect into a book called The Existence of Fire.

About the operative: Erin Crooks is a Sim.

In case you’ve been holding back, it may please you to know that submissions are now open again.

Stay tuned for large punkins and small children later this week. <3

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Issue Thirty-Two!!

Posted in Issue Thirty-Two with tags , , , on July 23, 2012 by mohawko

Oh man, have we got a story for you. This week, we raise our raw voices to the air in celebration of our thirty-second issue, brought to us by one of our most inimitable poets, and muscling its fearless way through a writers’ conference and elsewhere at Skidmore College and Saratoga Springs by previous SPR contributor Rebecca Haze. TAKE MY TIP GET ON OUT TAKE MY TIP GET ON OUT:

ISSUE THIRTY-TWO (7/23/12):

featuring

“SWAGGER”

by David Greenspan

Operative: Rebecca Haze (Saratoga Springs, NY)

About the author: David Greenspan is the author of the chapbooks A COLLECTION OF MY GREATEST HITS (panguar ban party 2012), i tried to bear the elephants and lost (NAP 2012), and the forthcoming chapbook THEN (turtleneck press). Find him at davidgreenspan.blogspot.com.

About the operative: Rebecca Haze‘s work has been featured in The Safety Pin Review in the past. She is still confused.

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Issue Thirty-One!!

Posted in Issue Thirty-One with tags , , , on July 9, 2012 by mohawko

We have jumped the thirty-issue hump and are ready with a sublime piece of civil disobedience. This is where it’s always been and where it will always be. Presenting, without (much) preamble, the Safety Pin Review’s thirty-first issue, born in the streets of Syracuse and worn to the very fringes of Washington by Joshua Young. Here we are:

ISSUE THIRTY-ONE (7/9/12):

featuring

“Civil Disobedience in America”

by Lorrie Sprecher

Operative: Joshua Young (around, Washington)

About the author: Lorrie Sprecher is the author of the punk, lesbian novel Sister Safety Pin. She resides in Syracuse, New York with her dog Kurt.

About the operative: Joshua Young studies poetry in the MFA program at Columbia College Chicago, where he teaches and serves as an editor for the Columbia Poetry Review. He is the author of When the Wolves Quit: A Play in Verse (Gold Wake Press) and To the Chapel of Light (Mud Luscious Press/Nephew), as well as the forthcoming, The Diegesis, written with Chas Hoppe (Gold Wake Press 2013). He lives in a really cool apartment in the Lincoln Square neighborhood with his wife, their son, and their dog.

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Issue Thirty!!

Posted in Issue Thirty with tags , , , on June 25, 2012 by mohawko

At long, long last, the Safety Pin Review’s storied (and long, long anticipated) thirtieth issue hits computer screens everywhere and the streets of one particular Indiana town. This feels like an anniversary. We have as our operative this week Dirk Walker, radio-ist supreme and rocker of the SPR’s first denim jacket. Welcome, prepare to be blown away. Don’t touch that dial! Presenting:

ISSUE THIRTY (6/25/12):

featuring

“Monty Hall Would Not Be Amused”

by B.J. Jones

Operative: Dirk Walker (Fort Wayne, IN)

About the author: B.J. Jones (@beej_jones) writes poetry, nonfiction essays, short fiction, and short short fiction. His poetry, nonfiction, and short short fiction have been published in various literary journals. He needs to work on his short fiction.

About the operative: Dirk Walker is the Podcast Director at Specter Magazine and host of the Specter Lit Podcast. When he’s not narrating the world of alt lit, he’s spinning some of the funkiest music the Bible Belt has never heard and working on his brand new podcast, Inside Joke. You can follow him on Twitter @dirkwalker.

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Issue Twenty-Nine!!

Posted in Issue Twenty-Nine with tags , , , on June 19, 2012 by mohawko

WELL HELLO AND WELCOME TO THE PARTY THAT NEVER EVER (EVER) ENDS. This week’s story is being worn proudly around the classy environs of Ann Arbor by none other than Operative Kerry Flannagan, the oldest of the old school, and the wisest of the wise-asses. Dig it:

ISSUE TWENTY-NINE (6/18/12):

featuring

“Catatonia”

by Rachel Swirsky

Operative: Kerry Flannagan (Ann Arbor, MI)

About the author: Rachel Swirsky (same on twitter) writes short stories for a variety of magazines and anthologies and sometimes gets nominated for awards. Her collection: Through the Drowsy Dark.

About the operative: Kerry Flannagan might not have street smarts, but she can school your ass in cornhole.

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Issue Twenty-Eight!!

Posted in Issue Twenty-Eight with tags , , , on June 13, 2012 by mohawko

HERE WE GO AGAIN. We are beyond thrilled to present the story that made the SPR’s second voyage across the world, this time to Daejeon, South Korea (!), by second-time SPR operative (and soon-to-be SPR author) Kelsey Kerr, who’s teaching at an English academy there. It received mucho attention overseas, adorable evidence of which is to follow throughout this week. Now, a ghost story:

ISSUE TWENTY-EIGHT (6/12/12):

The Fisherman’s Widow

by David Sklar

Operative: Kelsey Kerr (Daejeon, Korea)

About the author: David Sklar writes in the spaces between the impossible magic of legend, the inscrutable magic of dreams, and the breathtaking, everyday magic of the world in which we live. (davidwriting.com.)

About the operative: Kelsey Kerr is from Pittsburgh, PA. She recently graduated from Denison University and currently teaches English in South Korea. You’ll find her poem “Sawed” in the current issue of The Susquehanna Review. (kelseyannkerr.com)

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